Posts Tagged ‘patriotism’

A Polish friend, an MEP of my sort of age, was telling me the other day about how his life changed when Pope John Paul II toured his home country. The papal visit set in train the events that led to t...
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In the final days of the campaign, it became all about nationhood. Arguments about sterling and the NHS and oil revenues faded into the background as both sides appealed to their supporters’ patriot...
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Euro-integrationists will often tell you that they dream of a “post-national” future. Patriotism, they maintain, is chauvinistic, irrational and dangerous. Nation-states, in the words of our old f...
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1. The recovery is underway. This downturn, to the surprise of most economists, has been felt in wages, not in unemployment. Cuts in spending have been more than offset by 1.4 million new private s...
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Do you remember the end of The Last Battle, C.S. Lewis’s final Narnia novel? The characters enter a Platonic Heaven, where things are as they are in our world, only idealised: What was the fruit lik...
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When Continental MEPs ask me about Scottish independence, their assumption is usually that separatism is popular in Scotland but unpopular in England. In fact, according to opinion polls, it’s the ...
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This should come as no surprise, but Gallup’s latest poll confirms that American conservatives are significantly more patriotic than American liberals. When asked the question: “How proud are you ...
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Right. I’ve voiced my own concerns about the BBC’s Olympic coverage, but I’m not having this. According to a report from Hannah Furness: “Channel controllers responsible for broadcasting Londo...
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The first few days of the Olympics have been accompanied by a clutch of articles about how British patriotism has been rehabilitated, the Union flag reclaimed and so forth. Really? Reclaimed from whom...
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One of the most popular arguments for a London Olympics was that it would be a super-sized version of Wimbledon – the world's best athletes performing on a stage we provided, to our polite yet o...
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